Insulating-support for storage-battery tanks.



e. Moaaxs. INSULATING SUPPORT FOR. STORAGE BATTERY TANKS. APPLIOATION FILED ROY. 7, 1910.-

1,034;394. Patented Jilly as, 1912.

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MIA/5855s; F16 Ina/mm @EORGE H. MORRIS, GE GLENCOE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE EL'ECTitIG STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, lENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATEON 03 NEW JERSEY.

INSULATINGSUP?ORT FOR STORAGE-BATTERY TANKS.

Specification of Letters Eatent. Patented 5 3th 191?? Application filed November 7, 1310. Serial No. 591,017.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoncn H. Monnrs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glencoe, Cook county, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Insulating-Support for Storage-Battery Tanks, of which the following is a specification.

Objects of the present invention are to insure an even bearing between the glass or porcelain part of the support and the tank;

to exclude dust and spray or"m oisture such as is incident to washing or} scrubbing the floor from the insulating liquid contained in the glass or porcelain an; and to provide a conveniently, asse mbled. etticient and durable insulating support.

The invention will be clairtiedcat the end hereof and will be first described in connection with the embodiment of it selected for the sake of illustration in the accompany ing drawings in which Figure 1, is an clevational view showing an insulating support embodying features of the invention in application'to a storage battery tank, and Fig. 2, is an elevational view with parts broken away and drawn to an enlarged scale and illustrating a device embodying features of the invention.

In the drawings 1, is the glass or porcelain part or body of the device and in hereafter referring to this part as of glass that term is intended to include porcelain. The

glass part or body 1, is provided with an upwardly extending centrally arranged supporting core 2, which may be tubular Around this core is formed a receptacle 3, which contains an insulating fluid or substance as oil-. The rim portion 4, of the body which with'the tubular core forms the iyeceptacle"3, does not extend as far as the core. v

5, is a cap provided with a seatportion'b, which rests on top of the core 2, and with a depending flange or skirt 7,'which extends below the rim part 4: of the'body 1. The seat portion 6, may be made thicker than the rest of the cap and it may be somewhat oliset so as to operate as a guide in centering the cap in respect to the body. The cap is made of soft metal such as lead or an alloy of lead.

In use the central or seat portion 06 51:: of this patent may. be obtained for cap since it is of soft metal, yields or slightly flows under the Weight of the tank 7 and thus distributes the weight evenly on the top of the tubular core so that breakage of the latter is avoided, it being remembered that the core is of glass or porcelain and therefore should be evenly loaded. The depending skirt or flange operates as a guard and keeps out dustand moisture such as mightenter the liquid receptacle 3, when the fioor is! brushed or washed.

lVhat I claim is:

1. An insulating support for storage battery tanks comprising the combination of a glass body having a supporting core and a chamber for insulating fluid, and a cap or softinetal seated on the core to distribute weight evenly thereon andv'provided with a flange or skirt depending below the wallof said receptacle and constituting a guard for excluding dust and extraneous matter, substantially as described,

2. An insulating support for storage battery tanks comprising-the combination of glass receptacle having a supporting core, and a soft-metal.cap provided with a seat adapted to overlie the .core and with a flange or skirt depending around the receptacle,

substantially as described.

, 3. An insulating support for storage bat-- tery tanks eomp rising an.=insulating liquid receptacle nieinbeighaying a supporting core \and a caparnembhproiqided with a flange.

or skirt depending around the receptacle 'niember, and yielding means at the contact of the two members, substantially as de scribed.

4. An insulating support for storage: bat-- tery-tanks comprislng an lnsulating liquid receptacle having a supporting core of rigidmaterial and acap provided with a seat of yielding material adapted to overlie the core and with a flange-or skirt depending around the receptacle substantially as de scribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

GEORGE H. MORRES.

Witnesses:

Tanners-112120 Nu'i'ron,

6, of the;

five cents each, Washington, D. G.

Bacon Fons.

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